Gord Martineau - professional sleazebag!

oh christ i'll never be able to watch CITY-TV again without thinking of these clips. gotta love jojo chintoh (sp?) nicking booze when 'on assignment'. nice work, boys.

Hey Rob, will you be able to listen to Roch Voisine again?

C'mon, nothing can break my love for THE ROCH. Gord-o gave it a good try, but he failed. What a wanker.

Do my eyes deceive me or does he really point to his groin and say "There's your news story, right there"?!

Your eyes do not deceive.

I don't really know what's going on in the third clip, other than someone falling over. Was he sleeping?

It's Irshad Manji fainting on set. That one was a little out of bounds, I thought. You don't need to resort to outtakes to show her making an ass of herself.

That, amazingly enough, was a different time.

News anchors in being obsessed with their groin shocker?

ps. Irshad rocks.

Sean, say it ain't so!

Admittedly my experience with seeing Irshad on-air has been limited, but the stuff I've seen has been pretty cool. Why the dislike?

these clips are the best thing i've seen all year. i can't wait untill i bump into gord again.

also, mark, damn you to hell for beating at starting a thread on this.

Clips of Toronto newscaster making rude remarks off-air circulate on Internet
OTTAWA (CP) — A well-known newscaster in the Toronto market was captured making a rude gesture and referring to a Canadian singer as a “homo” in a series of video clips currently circulating on the Internet.
The recordings are undated outtakes from promotional items that veteran Citytv news anchor Gord Martineau recorded with co-anchor Anne Mroczkowski in the studio to advertise the CityPulse at Six evening newscast, the Ottawa Citizen reported.
The clips show Martineau mocking an upcoming news item about children with cancer and, in another, referring to a Canadian singer as a “homo.”
When Mroczkowski defends an item on a pancreas transplant as an interesting medical story, Martineau points toward his groin and says, “This is interesting. That is not.”
The Citizen said Citytv vice-president Stephen Hurlbut apologized for what he said showed a lapse into a “bad sense of humour” that sometimes occurs in newsrooms. But he said there would be no disciplinary action required.
“That would be absurd.”
Martineau was “embarrassed” that his broadcasting career might be besmirched because “he got crazy one day,” Hurlbut said. Hurlbut says the clips are taken out of context.
The offensive segments were never aired. Hurlbut said he did not know how the clips ended up on the Internet.

His remarks are reminiscent of the imbroglio involving former CTV Newsnet anchor Avery Haines, who in 2000 lost her job for making insensitive comments about people with disabilities.
Haines believed she was off-air when she said joked that her own stuttering showed “equal opportunity” for the disabled.
She was fired by CTV and was later hired by Citytv. She now works for another network.
(Ottawa Citizen)

funny, this thread linking to the bloopers existed this morning! must've been a crazy 'technical glitch':

http://community.citytv.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=17;t=007021

The Frank clips are gone! Brutal. Can we find them anywhere else and perhaps unindex this thread before "the lawyers" try to destroy the evidence?

i've saved 'em on my hd. if you really want them i can burn them onto cd for ya.

Actually I just found a mirror site linked from the Frank forums, but thanks. Looks like this story even made the National Post and the Ottawa Citizen today. Way to go CityTV.

Did you see yesterday's Nat'l Post editorial on this?
I think it's pretty fucking smug for print j'lists to gloat over this.

Yeah, those people NEVER drink.

The clips are back:

http://thor.prohosting.com/~nsloaner/citytv1.wmv
http://thor.prohosting.com/~nsloaner/citytv2.wmv
http://thor.prohosting.com/~nsloaner/citytv3.wmv
http://thor.prohosting.com/~nsloaner/citytv4.wmv